Friday, November 6, 2009

This will show you how to create batch file to shutdown or restart your pc, also you can schedule it by any given time, follow these steps.

Create batch file for shutdown (with shutdown message box)

First create new text document

Now inside text document type c:\windows\system32\shutdown -s -f -t 300 (the value 300 is 5 min, (60 x 5) if you want you can raise or reduce the value or put 00 for immediate shutdown)

Now save the file as with the extension of .bat (ex- shutdown.bat)

Important - make sure you uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" in folder option before naming the batch file. otherwise it wont create batch file,it will create only text file named as shutdown.bat.txt

If you want to disable automatic updates for windows you can do it by in control panel or system properties, but you know that even if you turn off updates in here automatic update service will continue to run in background. in order to disable this service follow these steps.

Click start , click run

Type services.msc and press enter

Now find the automatic update service and double click to open it

Now stop the service by pressing stop button under "service status"

Then under "startup type" select disable

Click apply and ok

From now on "windows update" and "windows update service" will be stop

In windows xp sometimes you notice that your "display properties" tabs were missing suddenly. (actually sometimes hides itself) such as "Themes , Desktop, Screen saver, Appearance, Settings" ,this can happen for many reasons, the exact cause for this is yet to be found, but we know how to restore the missing tabs in display properties, follow these steps.